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| Sunday, August 19 11:03 PM |
| CODE Deciphered: Past, present and future! |
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Larry Flynt Publications, as well as the whole Larry Flynt empire, is undergoing a restructuring of sorts, and CODE Magazine, along with several other titles and holdings (including LFP headquarters in Beverly Hills) have been put up on the block for a rumored price tag of around 8 million dollars. So what’s in the future for CODE magazine and the HNIC, Editor-in Chief Eugene Robinson? I sat down with him and he spoke on LFP, the sexual orientation of magazines, as well as the history and future of CODE Magazine.
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| Monday, September 18 01:34 PM |
| Marion Jones Has the Skills, Adam Kidron and UBO Pays the Bills |
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Adam Kidron's UBO arrives late again with an under-whelming website for a hot property. This past week Marion Jones was on covers of magazines and on every television station. She is poised to bring home a record 5 gold medals. UBO is poised to bring home 5 hits. The Olympics officially started this weekend and UBO is attempting to get a site up in time before she competes. They paid her approximately $1 million dollars for the rights to do this site and they haven't even linked to it from their main site yet.
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| Thursday, August 17 05:40 PM |
| Two Guys With Their Heads In The Bushes |
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Politicallyblack.com is a site run by two republicans out of D.C. that promised to provide "hard-hitting, cutting-edge, envelope-pushing big-up weekly review of political news and happenings" and hoped to revolutionize Black political discussion online. They sold the site for the price of a Range Rover to a company that was going public. What exactly is the purpose of a site that uses a demeaning logo of a black butler serving dinner to Capitol Hill?
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| Wednesday, June 14 02:34 PM |
| MITP: Many Internet Technology Posers |
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From its beginnings at B. Smiths as the personal meat-market of four single buppies working at new media companies, to its current state as the meat-market for buppies hoping to work at new media companies, MITP continues to be a failed experiment in minority networking. With corporate patronage from DoubleClick and a tendency to hold all of its minority networking events at non-minority owned establishments, MITP is nothing more then a platform from which its founders, Tanya Omeze, Monroe Bodden, Donna Sanabria and Larry Tuckett, prospect for dates.
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| Thursday, July 13 06:54 PM |
| Bamflex! Goes Sooner Than Later, But At Least We Got This Navigator! |
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The company run by husband and wife team Gary and Melanie Mack launched their site as a broadband portal for urban entertainment. It offered everything from, 14 years of "Showtime at the Apollo" reruns to Master P crying about his basketball career, or lack thereof. However, it looks like the party is finally over. After burning through approximately $5 million in cash and burning investors Bamflex! is headed for the a listing on Ghost Sites.
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| Tuesday, September 19 04:45 PM |
| Digital Don Darien Dash Burns Through Staff and Cash |
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What do you do when your company is burning through more then half a million dollars a quarter, you've fired over 60% of your staff and your much hyped AOL deal is a dud? If your Digital Mafia CEO, Darien Dash, you dub yourself the "Digital Divide Pioneer" and go on a speaking tour of government offices and ivy league colleges. All this time we believed Bobby Hemit's conspiracy theories about economic disparities and corporate greed causing the digital divide, thanks for clearing it up Darien.
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| Monday, June 19 05:27 PM |
| Darien Dash: Race for Cash |
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Darien is preparing to launch "Places of Color". Sounds more like a smarmy romance novel by Terry McMillan than a co-branded ISP play involving AOL. The site currently consists of the ubiquitous Flash intro -straight from a Macromedia tutorial- and a grating sound track guiding us through uninspired visuals. The press for this deal sounds great: AOL working with a company called Digital Mafia, to bring poor black people Internet service at $19.95 when many ISPs are giving away service for free!
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| Tuesday, July 18 10:06 PM |
| 88hiphop On The Highway To Heaven. |
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Randy Nkonoki-Ward and Mark Kotlinski started 88hiphop on a 900 number. They found the ultimate partner in Pseudo. For a 50 percent stake in 88hiphop, Randy and Mark now drew 6 figure salaries, access to a studio, web servers to stream content, and a staff to control. The possibilities seemed endless after some key successes and the deep pockets of Pseudo backing it up. All things are not as they seem, as the well eventually ran dry.
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